Food Porn

 Once again, I'm up past my bedtime... this time way, way past.  I stayed late at the office and no new photos for Friday.  Instead I came home, flaked out on the couch and started to think about my previous post and food and photography.

  Photographing food is harder than it looks.  It's not something I've ever had a burning desire to do.  I'd rather just eat it.  And then go outside and shoot.  However, since I've embarked on my pic-a-day project, I've had to focus - literally -  on my quotidien existence.  I have to confess I don't find much of my immediate domestic surroundings to be very photogenic... not yet anyway.  I suspect I just need to look a little closer.  But I have always found food to be quite beautiful.  Especially produce.  I love to lurk and to linger in produce sections, admiring the roundness, the firmness, the shininess, sometimes the wet and the gooey....  Yes, I'm a food voyeur as well as a gourmand.  So why not photograph my food?  I suspect that until the days get longer and drier around here, I will be eating later and later as I tackle the unique challenges of trying to make my groceries look handsome in two dimensions.


  Until I get better at that task, why not check out this blog:  http://foodgawker.com/.
The title says it all.  This site selects the best photos from all the food blogs on the web and puts them in one spot.  And if you click on the photo, you can usually get the recipe.  So you can cook, or just look and drool.